OMG.... It is unbelievably windy today. The strongest wind i'd ever encountered.
Anthony bought the strippenkart for us to take the tram and we headed to the tram station from the train station dragging our luggages. We were planning to unload our luggages at Anthony's place before heading to Duwo to collect our apartment keys.
Hundreds of bicycles at the train station
Kian Shing, Janan and I
Canal, the houses and the boats
At the tram station
Random shot
View from Anthony's studio corridor
Walking towards the tram station
Canal lined streets
Check out the bridge lifting
Duwo building
TU-Delft building
A fallen lamppost
Blue and white paintings/drawings
This bridge turns itself to allow ships to pass
And me
De Hoven Passage
Part of the reason why my luggage is so heavyWent to Changi Airport Terminal 1 to fly to Delft, The Netherlands for 1 semester of study.
Qy, Ys, Aaron, me and Dz
Stephen, me, Bernard, Weiming
Edwin, me, Gs, Derrick, Clarence, Jimmy
The 4 of us taking the same flight
Chicken Pasta (British Airways dinner)
London Heathrow early in the morning
Flying
Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam
Train ticket
Me on the train
Most of the train notices are in Dutch
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Netherlands Rail)
The massive luggages
A passing train
Finally reached Delft StationI've uploaded the pictures of my first day in facebook. Coz i'm lazy to blog in detail here. Only added a nice picture that i taken earlier for you all to see.
Gotta sleep soon, been awake for more than 18 hours already.
SunsetOk i'm heading to the airport now. Will blog if i have the internet connection ready over there.
:)
I'm leaving Singapore soon in less than 24 hours! I'll be in Netherlands soon.
I'm feeling a mixture of feelings. Anxious because don't know what to expect (i don't know who are my roomies yet as they assigned hostel rooms randomly). Excited because going to travel in Europe. Sian coz heard that TU-Delft Aerospace Engineering course is the cream of the crop and is the toughest among the courses. Sigh... Pray dun 'ta bao' can already.
Now i'm wrecking my brain to see what else i need to bring over to Netherlands.
It's the Oscar season once again! Darn, I'll be missing a lot of good movies.
I still got Atonement, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Savages, Away from Her, Juno, Into the Wild, etc, that i wanna watch.
Argggggggg.....................................
Stunned by the death of Heath Ledger today. A promising young actor but unfortunately doesn't have the chance to showcase his talent anymore.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2007 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®.
| Performance by an actor in a leading role | |
| George Clooney in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) | |
| Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) | |
| Tommy Lee Jones in “In the Valley of Elah” (Warner Independent) | |
| Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises” (Focus Features) | |
| Performance by an actor in a supporting role | |
| Casey Affleck in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.) | |
| Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) | |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (Universal) | |
| Hal Holbrook in “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment) | |
| Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) | |
| Performance by an actress in a leading role | |
| Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal) | |
| Julie Christie in “Away from Her” (Lionsgate) | |
| Marion Cotillard in “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) | |
| Laura Linney in “The Savages” (Fox Searchlight) | |
| Ellen Page in “Juno” (Fox Searchlight) | |
| Performance by an actress in a supporting role | |
| Cate Blanchett in “I’m Not There” (The Weinstein Company) | |
| Ruby Dee in “American Gangster” (Universal) | |
| Saoirse Ronan in “Atonement” (Focus Features) | |
| Amy Ryan in “Gone Baby Gone” (Miramax) | |
| Tilda Swinton in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) | |
| Best animated feature film of the year | |
| “Persepolis” (Sony Pictures Classics) Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud | |
| “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Brad Bird | |
| “Surf's Up” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ash Brannon and Chris Buck | |
| Achievement in art direction | |
| “American Gangster” (Universal) Art Direction: Arthur Max Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino | |
| “Atonement” (Focus Features) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood Set Decoration: Katie Spencer | |
| “The Golden Compass” (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners) Art Direction: Dennis Gassner Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock | |
| “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Art Direction: Dante Ferretti Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo | |
| “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Art Direction: Jack Fisk Set Decoration: Jim Erickson | |
| Achievement in cinematography | |
| “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.) Roger Deakins | |
| “Atonement” (Focus Features) Seamus McGarvey | |
| “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Janusz Kaminski | |
| “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roger Deakins | |
| “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Robert Elswit | |
| Achievement in costume design | |
| “Across the Universe” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky | |
| “Atonement” (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran | |
| “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal) Alexandra Byrne | |
| “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) Marit Allen | |
| “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Colleen Atwood | |
| Achievement in directing | |
| “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Julian Schnabel | |
| “Juno” (Fox Searchlight) Jason Reitman | |
| “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) Tony Gilroy | |
| “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | |
| “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Paul Thomas Anderson | |
| Best documentary feature | |
| “No End in Sight” (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs | |
| “Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience” (The Documentary Group) A Documentary Group Production Richard E. Robbins | |
| “Sicko” (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production Michael Moore and Meghan O’Hara | |
| “Taxi to the Dark Side” (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production Alex Gibney and Eva Orner | |
| “War/Dance” (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine | |
| Best documentary short subject | |
| “Freeheld” A Lieutenant Films Production Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth | |
| “La Corona (The Crown)” A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega | |
| “Salim Baba” A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello | |
| “Sari’s Mother” (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production James Longley | |
| Achievement in film editing | |
| “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Christopher Rouse | |
| “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Juliette Welfling | |
| “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment) Jay Cassidy | |
| “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes | |
| “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Dylan Tichenor | |
| Best foreign language film of the year | |
| “Beaufort” A Metro Communications, Movie Plus Production Israel | |
| “The Counterfeiters” An Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Magnolia Filmproduktion Production Austria | |
| “Katyń” An Akson Studio Production Poland | |
| “Mongol” A Eurasia Film Production Kazakhstan | |
| “12” A Three T Production Russia | |
| Achievement in makeup | |
| “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald | |
| “Norbit” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount) Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji | |
| “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney) Ve Neill and Martin Samuel | |
| Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) | |
| “Atonement” (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli | |
| “The Kite Runner” (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics) Alberto Iglesias | |
| “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard | |
| “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino | |
| “3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami | |
| Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) | |
| “Falling Slowly” from “Once” (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova | |
| “Happy Working Song” from “Enchanted” (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Stephen Schwartz | |
| “Raise It Up” from “August Rush” (Warner Bros.) Nominees to be determined | |
| “So Close” from “Enchanted” (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Stephen Schwartz | |
| “That’s How You Know” from “Enchanted” (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Stephen Schwartz | |
| Best motion picture of the year | |
| “Atonement” (Focus Features) A Working Title Production Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers | |
| “Juno” (Fox Searchlight) A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers | |
| “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers | |
| “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers | |
| “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers | |
| Best animated short film | |
| “I Met the Walrus” A Kids & Explosions Production Josh Raskin | |
| “Madame Tutli-Putli” (National Film Board of Canada) A National Film Board of Canada Production Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski | |
| “Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)” (Premium Films) A BUF Compagnie Production Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse | |
| “My Love (Moya Lyubov)” (Channel One Russia) A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production Alexander Petrov | |
| “Peter & the Wolf” (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman | |
| Best live action short film | |
| “At Night” A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth | |
| “Il Supplente (The Substitute)” (Sky Cinema Italia) A Frame by Frame Italia Production Andrea Jublin | |
| “Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)” (Premium Films) A Karé Production Philippe Pollet-Villard | |
| “Tanghi Argentini” (Premium Films) An Another Dimension of an Idea Production Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans | |
| “The Tonto Woman” A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown | |
| Achievement in sound editing | |
| “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg | |
| “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Skip Lievsay | |
| “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Randy Thom and Michael Silvers | |
| “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Matthew Wood | |
| “Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins | |
| Achievement in sound mixing | |
| “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis | |
| “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland | |
| “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane | |
| “3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate) Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe | |
| “Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin | |
| Achievement in visual effects | |
| “The Golden Compass” (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners) Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood | |
| “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier | |
| “Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro) Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier | |
| Adapted screenplay | |
| “Atonement” (Focus Features) Screenplay by Christopher Hampton | |
| “Away from Her” (Lionsgate) Written by Sarah Polley | |
| “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Screenplay by Ronald Harwood | |
| “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen | |
| “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson | |
| Original screenplay | |
| “Juno” (Fox Searchlight) Written by Diablo Cody | |
| “Lars and the Real Girl” (MGM) Written by Nancy Oliver | |
| “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) Written by Tony Gilroy | |
| “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Screenplay by Brad Bird Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird | |
| “The Savages” (Fox Searchlight) Written by Tamara Jenkins | |
05/07/07
It was our last day in Vietnam and we will be doing last minute shopping. We proceeded to Dong Xuan Market which is cheaper than the usual shops outside.
Interior of the market
Bustling with people
Shoes Galore
Household items galore
Dong Xuan Market
Soft Toys galore
Drama Unfolding
Leaving the hostel (the hostel assistants were very helpful towards guests)
Back in Singapore, wearing a communist t-shirt04/07/07
Continuing the tour of Tam Coc...
Sunlight once again
Look at the boy, so cute
Hole
Check out the awesome background
Boat vendors
Sitting on a boat
Heading back
As we were heading away from the sun, the lighting is better for photography
Feetwork
Clear sky
Giải Khảt = Cold Drink in Vietnamese
Edwin and I
